Good Morning, Do! Today is Thursday, October 22 ___________________________________________________ International Bonehead Award Woman Busted After Hitting Cop With Meth _____________________________________________________ Today, October 20 in 1879 Thomas Edison conducted his first successful experiment with a high-resistance carbon filament. _____________________________________________________ In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. --- Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005) A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions. --- Wilson Mizner _____________________________________________________ A five year old was discussing Noah's Ark with Grandma. Grandma asked, "How many animals went into the Ark?" The youngster replied: "One mail and one e-mail." _____________________________________________________   ___________________________________________________ A woman approached the minister after the sermon, and thanked him for his discourse. "I found it so helpful," she said. The minister replied: "I hope it will not prove as helpful as the last sermon you heard me preach." "Why, what do you mean?" asked the astonished woman. "Well," said the minister, "that sermon lasted you three years." ___________________________________________________  An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD has been earned by  Stephanie Dowdy, 33, West Monroe, Louisiana, USA 
 Woman Busted After Hitting Cop With Meth 
 In her haste to ditch a bag of methamphetamine during a traffic stop, a Louisiana woman allegedly tossed the drug out her car window and promptly hit a patrolman with the airborne narcotics. Stephanie Dowdy, 33, was behind the wheel of a Honda Civic that was pulled over late last night after a cop spotted the vehicle traveling in the middle of a roadway in West Monroe (where Dowdy resides). While approaching from the Hondas passenger side, a deputy was struck in the leg by a plastic bag thrown out the passenger window. The bag, a probable cause affidavit states, contained about half-a- gram of suspected Methamphetamine. Dowdy, who was alone in the car, initially claimed she did not throw any Methamphetamine out of her window. But she then reportedly recanted and admitted ownership of the narcotics (as well as tossing the small baggie). Pictured above, Dowdy was charged with a felony narcotics possession charge and obstruction of justice (for trying to ditch the meth). She was also cited for driving without a license and improper lane use. Dowdy is being held in the Ouachita Parish jail in lieu of $5300 bond.  
 DearWebby's Tech Support Pits From: Lynn RE: Hard drive defrag   Dear Webby, I have two hard drives. How often should they be defragged? Lynn  Dear Lynn That's like asking how often the laces on your sneakers should be tied. Every time you use them. Most of the defrag program out there are garbage. For example, I was using Claris, an more than a bit suspicious about their cutesy tetris style "entertainment". Then my hard drive crashed, without any warning. Well, I sure won't use THAT again, ever. Right now I am using Defragler. It has been around for ages, and I have used it before on some machines. It is from the CrapCleaner people. Excellent reputation! You might want to run CrapCleaner first and get rid of any crap. No point defragmenting crap. With Crap Cleaner keep in mind that they have been taken over by Avast. That means Avast is desperately trying to slither all kinds of weird stuff onto your machine. Deny! Deny! Deny!. All you need is CrapCleaner (Free) and Defragler (Free). Sure, if you need to spend company budget before year end, then get the PRO versions. Then you will get free update reminders. WOW! One friend, Prof. Dr. Moe advises against that. He is more than a bit suspicious about new versions and fanatically sticks with an old version, that works much better. If your 2020 version works well for you, then don't let it update to the next version. Remember how well Windows W7 worked, and how much cussing you did and are doing about W10. Newer software is not always an improvement. Have FUN! DearWebby 
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 A young man from the city goes to visit his farmer uncle. For the first few days, the uncle shows him the usual things, the livestock, the crops. After three days, however, it is obvious that the nephew is getting bored, and the uncle is running out of things to amuse him with. Finally, the uncle has an idea. "Why don't you grab a gun, take the dogs, and go shooting?" This seems to cheer the nephew up, and with enthusiasm, off he goes. After a few hours, the nephew returns. "How did you enjoy that?" his uncle asks. "It was great," the nephew says. "I kinda like those dogs, so I took the cats instead. Got any more cats?" ____________________________________________ At the spring barbecue a lady stood up and said that it was time to get ready for the celebrations. At the stroke of midnight, she wanted every man to be standing next to the one person who made his life worth living. Well, it was kind of embarrassing. The poor bartender was almost crushed to death. ____________________________________________ A young minister, in his first days at his first parish, is obliged to conduct the funeral services for an eccentric man who has just died. At he funeral home, he stands before the open casket and tries to think of words to console the widow. Finally, the minister says, "I know this must be a very hard blow, Mrs. Jones. But we must remember that what we see here is only the husk, the shell. The nut has gone to heaven." ____________________________________________ 
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 Today October 22 in 1746 The College of New Jersey was officially chartered. It later became known as Princeton University. 1797 Andre-Jacques Garnerin made the first recorded parachute jump. He made the jump from about 3,000 feet. 1836 Sam Houston was inaugurated as the first constitutionally elected president of the Republic of Texas. 1844 This day is recognized as "The Great Disappointment" among those who practiced Millerism. The world was expected to come to an end according to the followers of William Miller. 1879 Thomas Edison conducted his first successful experiment with a high-resistance carbon filament. 1907 The Panic of 1907 began when depositors began withdrawing money from many New York banks. 1954 The Federal Republic of Germany was invited to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). 1962 U.S. President Kennedy went on radio and television to inform the United States about his order to send U.S. forces to blockade Cuba. The blockade was in response to the discovery of Soviet missile bases on the island. 1968 Apollo 7 splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean. The spacecraft had orbited the Earth 163 times. 1975 Air Force Technical Sergeant Leonard Matlovich was discharged after publicly declaring his homosexuality. His tombstone reads " "A gay Vietnam Veteran. When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one." 1979 The ousted Shah of Iran, Mohammad Riza Pahlavi was allowed into the U.S. for medical treatment. 1981 The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization was decertified by the federal government for its strike the previous August. 1983 At the Augusta National Golf Course in Georgia, an armed man crashed a truck through front gates and demanded to speak with U.S. President Ronald Reagan. 1986 U.S. President Reagan signed the Tax Reform Act of 1986 into law. 1991 The European Community and the European Free Trade Association agreed to create a free trade zone of 19 nations by the year 1993. 1995 The 50th anniversary of the United Nations was marked by a record number of world leaders gathering. 1998 The United Nations announced that over 2 million children had been killed in war as innocent victims since 1987. 1998 Pakistan's carpet weaving industry announced that they would begin to phase out child labor. 1999 China ended its first-ever human rights conference in which it defied Western definitions of civil liberties. 1999 The U.N. Security Council voted to send 6,000 troops to Sierra Leone to oversee a peace plan that had been signed in July. 2008 The iTunes Music Store reached 200 million applications downloaded. 2010 The Internation Space Station set the record (3641 days) for the longest continuous human occupation of space. It had been continously inhabited since November 2, 2000. 2020 Do smiled. 
 

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